"Hmm? Wait a moment—what did you mean by 'family members need not speak as outsiders'?"
Hearing Peng Tao's words, Ling Shuang quickly seized upon the crucial point. A trace of confusion appeared in his eyes. "Elder Peng, where did that come from? Could it be that the Yang Clan has decided to move into the Fuyao Sect as a whole?"
Clearly, this Sword Immortal Taicang, long renowned in the Central Region, was not particularly sensitive to topics that might involve romantic feelings between men and women.
Upon hearing Peng Tao's words, his first thought had been of a merger between two factions. He had not considered the matter from the perspective of a marriage alliance.
This also had much to do with Ling Shuang's past cultivation and upbringing in Meishan.
In the sect where he had been raised, the cultivators' eyes held little besides swords and the Sword Dao; they regarded everything else as external things.
It was only because of Ling Shuang's own temperament that he had not become as cold-blooded and heartless as the Meishan sword cultivators of old.
"Huh? No, no, no, Ling Shuang, you misunderstood."
Peng Tao was likewise taken aback by those words and hurriedly explained, "You have spent all these years in the Far North, so you likely do not know what has happened in the Central Region. The matter went like this..."
He then told Ling Shuang everything: from the Demon Child's initial infiltration of the Central Region, to Yang Lingrui discovering one of them, to the various factions later laying an ambush within the Unreturning Wind Cave to capture the Demon Child, and finally Yang Lingrui slaughtering himself to achieve Dao within the Wind Cavern, his soul and spirit disintegrating in the process.
Having heard the full story from beginning to end,